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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi added his voice to those criticizing the U.S. threat to slap import tariffs on some products and called on governments to work together rather than end up in a tit-for-tat dispute. While he downplayed the impact on the economy, he said recent developments still raise questions about the health…

The Trump administration will initially exclude Canada and Mexico from stiff tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, an exemption they would lose if they fail to reach an updated Nafta agreement with the U.S., White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Wednesday. The two nations won’t be subject to tariffs on their steel and…

By Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Trump administration isn’t trying to provoke a global trade fight with the steel and aluminum tariffs announced last week. “We are not looking to get into trade wars,” Mnuchin said Tuesday during a congressional committee hearing when asked about the tariffs. After announcing the steel and aluminum tariffs,…

While Vladimir Putin boasted that his latest “invincible” nuclear weapons prove the U.S. and its allies have failed to contain Russia, the display of bravado risks a new arms race that his country is ill-equipped to win. Putin earned a rare rebuke on Monday from U.S. President Donald Trump, who called him “irresponsible” for showing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Few issues could blur the lines of partisanship in Trump-era Washington. Trade is one of them. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum has labor unions and liberal Democrats in the unusual position of applauding Trump’s approach, while Republicans and an array of business…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday insisted “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” a bold claim that prompted pushback from a Nebraska Republican who quipped “kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families.” Trump has declared that the U.S. will impose punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports,…

Senate legislation that would enhance reporting to the gun-buyers background check system hit a roadblock on Monday, as Congress and the White House struggled to come up with a swift response to the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergAt least one senator, Republican Mike Lee of Utah, acted to block…

By January, Bjorn Westergard says, he and his fellow coders had finally had enough. In the space of two months, Lanetix, the Bay Area cloud-software startup he worked for, had allegedly dismissed a colleague who’d advocated for more paid time off, discouraged the remaining staff from discussing workplace problems, and implied that their jobs could…

It was supposed to be a good year for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. In January, for the first time since 2007, the Irish government—which was so savaged by the global financial crisis of 2008 that it was under the International Monetary Fund’s thumb until 2013—announced a budget surplus. Drastic survival tactics had paid off, including cutting […]